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Planning commission recommends city council approve change to nonconforming-use rules
Summary
The Laramie Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend a text amendment that would allow portions of buildings with nonconforming uses to be converted to conforming uses and prevent reversion to the prior use, with staff and the applicant saying the change would help businesses adapt interior spaces without expanding nonconforming uses.
The Laramie Planning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council approve a text amendment to the municipal code that would allow incremental conversion of nonconforming uses inside structures while barring a return to the prior nonconforming use.
The recommendation was prompted by an application asking that the code be clarified so that a conforming use placed within a building that currently contains a nonconforming use may remain and not revert to the preexisting use. Joe, a planning staff member, told the commission the amendment was intended to "help out businesses within the community, without expanding any nonconforming uses." He also…
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